...sense of it all. Mike Rubbo, her amanuensis, is reading now this thread.
He knows all and sees all. He sees "the reid" keeping Olive alive and hearty as ever.
A cough turned into pneumonia. Mike, did you know that Bernice Caster (google Bernice Caster Reid Welch),
was a Registered Nurse by the year 1925? No, you cannot have known that. She told me many a time of medicine in the olden days.
"We called it 'the old person's best friend'; it is painless and quick and natural and right. Any older person is likely to get pneumonia
and die a week or so later. No sorrow, just joy that, at last they are free of...bad things and misguided people."
I paraphrase Bernice (who lived for ninety FIVE years), but slightly.
It starts with a persistent cough....
Pack up our troubles in the old kit bag, and smile, smile, smile!
No worries, mates! This thread is holy and redeemed, thanks to MIKE RUBBO and Olive!
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VITAL SMAM-ER-IFFIC EDITS: Bernice's driver license stated her birth year as "1907".
But, inasmuch as I knew her from 1957 onward till her death of stroke in 1996, I had time to do "research".
Bernice was born, dirt-poor, like Olive, in the year of 1901. She LIED about her age, and vowed to kill me if I ever disclosed
the truth. Well, she's dead now too. And how funny it all is! She can't kill me or maim me! Only admin can do dat!
edit andendum number five hundred and sixty six: this is all getting too complicated. It is supposted to be a FUNNY thread of YT-only
embeds, to get the dial-uppers to upgrade to broadband, for reasons already stated.
Q: who is "bernice"? bernice was fern's best buddy, born the same year. who was fern? she was reid's paternal g'mother, and died of ovarian cancer at
the young age of of sixty two or so. bernice 'took over' for fern, and acted as reid's surrogate granny until her own death many years later.
fern and bernice, both, 'saved' reid from the clutches of his vile, "mommy dearest", just as best as they could. they loved me. so, I love old ladies most of all.
Olive is like bernice: tell it like it is, always! I am like McTeague: sweet and harmless, except when riled up...OLIVE RILEY. OLIVE FERN WOLFE WELCH.
Connecting dots, see? Olive is so much like fern, like bernice, and I am the sum-result of their GOOD mentoring: don't kow-tow to bully-cowards who operate from
behind screen names. be a man! OR, if you have a day job and MUST segregate your online-self from your co-workers, then screen-name yourself! Simple!
Keep safe. I use my real name because I was and am "self employed" (but can no longer work a regular job of any sort..."SLE", et al) But, I can type all day.
I can and do what I do to MENTOR the young to =not waste their time of life worrying over things that they cannot alter, at all! So you see this "reid" creature,
vainly trying to save lives, figuratively and literally, but suffering the consequences of being "different from all the rest."
My rest, permanent, will come soon, inside of a few years at most...I'll die of natural causes already well-advanced.
I am not unhappy or afraid...because of fern, and bernice, and for my "knowing" Olive Riley (thanks, Mike!)
There is so much magic in older people, you know this now.
"The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings" (Robert Lewis Stephenson, ca. 1888).
Reid, loving it all, and forgiving John in CR...I will remove him from my "foe" list shortly. I forgive in order to forget things that do not matter.
Olive matters forever. Ergo, she will "live" forever in your hearts. See her other "blog" videos? Meet her sister, Emma?
Oh, the love for life!